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Network Architect designing Zayo’s carrier-grade Layer 2 and Layer 3 infrastructure. Developing scalable architectures, testing platforms, and supporting enterprise network services.
Responsibilities:
- Take responsibility for the analysis, definition, and continued development of Zayo’s end-to-end Layer 2 and Layer 3 architecture
- Work with team members and groups to develop scalable network designs, solutions, and policy recommendations
- Analyze and drive key platform decisions and directions; provide guidance to network planning and operations groups
- Support internal product groups by identifying and presenting network-impacting requirements to service activation and network operations teams
- Support and lead development of Zayo’s growing network infrastructure through published architecture design documents
- Provide technical guidance for NCC support teams
- Conduct extensive lab testing of new architectures, platforms, and inter-networking software
- Promote Zayo’s Enterprise Networks product development
- Participate in discussions at standards development organizations such as NANOG, MEF, IETF, and other conferences
- Design, implement, and document new technologies; provide top-tier troubleshooting and customer support
- Guide network architecture, Ethernet and IP product design standards and enhancements, production network issues and escalations, and vendor relationships
Requirements:
- Deep and substantial operational knowledge and experience with carrier-class routers, switches, and packet-optical platforms, such as Juniper, Cisco, Nokia-ALU, Infinera, and Ciena/Cyan
- Ability to represent Zayo at Standards Development Organizations such as MEF, IEEE, ITU, IETF, ISO, etc.
- Excellent knowledge of Ethernet, QOS, MPLS/RSVP-TE, L2Circuit/VLL, VPLS-BGP/LDP, L3VPN, G.8032v2, E-OAM, Y.1731, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, and SNMP protocols
- Skills in building Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks in metro and long-haul applications
- Experience modeling financial impacts of decisions
- Strong vendor negotiation skills
- Skills in Perl/Python scripting, automation, NETCONF/YANG, and EMS/NMS
- Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to influence others with engineering solutions
- Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent experience
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience in engineering, architecture, or design of an ISP network
- Must have worked in “zero downtime” environments previously
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